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<br />4.949 ACRES IN N. W. COLORADO <br />Oil-Shale Tract Developer <br /> <br />By DICK PROUTY aC'rPS less than lhe oil-shale Rio Blanco is a company Cl"l"- <br />Denver Post Staff Writer trnct, is for surface use includ_ ated by Gulf Oil Co. and Stand- <br />ing disposal at o\'erburden and 0;1 f J <Ii .. h ndJ <br />The fop bidder 00 a federal_LJ ~ whihthe 'Jba ard. 0 n ana... a e <br />h . -"k i>lla e l.Ium C 01 S .... il bal '_'.. <br />oil-.shale tract as ~tltion= ..Ill! been extracted as well as 0(' UleU' 0 s e ink>resl-:! In we <br />Department of Intenor to near~y fices. warehouses and processing Piceance Basin after they com- <br />doub!? the Bmoun.t of JM1bhc eqUipment bined 10 bid lhe equivalent of <br />land It would use In northwest It wouldn't be mined under $oU.3I9 per acre for oil.shale- <br />Colorado. the present lease program. mining rights to federal lease <br />The Rio Blanco Oil Shale Proj. The application 10 lease, pur. tract C-a. <br />ed. whose parent firms bid chase, trade, obtain tight of Herget said the proposed 4,- <br />$210.3 million for mineral rights way to or otherwise Use the ~9 acrt's sought would appear <br />to 5,089 acres, seeks 4.949 more land was made by W. T. Her- to minimjze environmental and <br />acres of nearby land for "opti- get, presidrnt of Rio Blanco Oil economic problems associated <br />mum development" of an esti- Shale Project, in a letter to with oil.shale de\'elopment by <br />mated 4.7 bi/lion barrels of oil Dale Andrus, Bureau of Land the open-pit-mining rnt'thod. The <br />locked in shale. .\fanagernent I BL.'J} slate di- proposed lease. north and north_ <br />The addilional acreage, J-ro rector in Colorado. east of oil shale Iracl C-a. has <br /> <br />As k.s for <br /> <br />kesman said the company <br />definlte advantages Qv.er ~ ea~ ~ not abandoning anything" <br />lier concept by Int~rlO~ h~UI when asked if the request meant <br />conveyers or true s d ._ the ean,'OI1s in the Cathedral <br />t shale and overbur en w "11 d <br />'JX'" 8 Bluffs area wouldn t he fl e <br />th Calliedral Bluffs area, <br />e t f the "'jth shale wastes. There are <br />to. l~ mile-s direcUy wes 0 no big canyons in the 4,949-a('re <br />mmmg area. oducts area the spokesman said. <br />ThE" haul of waste. pr (l. He' said the surface on the <br />would ~ half as f':;,lk~~eBkn_ desired land is similar to that <br />pos('d site Is ~sed ). I I of C-a tract. He assum{'d open- <br />co. thus redu~mg. envlron~:~h~t pit-mining overburden and shale <br />and E'COnOmIC .Imp~etsl ssee's wastes would be piled on top <br />would not ~ In the e bli '5 of the pre-senl landscape C1nd <br />(Rio Blanco s) or I e pu c th eclairned. <br />interest." Herg~t wrote'bl f r ~~; are stilI lookin~ at all <br />Herg~, ~~':~~at,.. ~~~~~ B~an~ the options," he said. nO~ing;;:: <br />comme . firm has more than a \ ear <br /> <br />0073 <br /> <br />Use of More Public Land <br /> <br />_20 *THE DENVER POST <br /> <br />Mon..Dec,3D.197t <br /> <br />the "oUsite" impa.cts or oi/-shale) tract C-b for use related to de- only to C.,a b)' an irregular cor. <br />de\'elopment, whieb observers/\'elopmt>nt on the two Plceance,ridor and SOme of it isolated, is <br />ha\'e stressed. I\'ill be far grpater Basin traClS. Thus the tot.al O(f-I in an arta of thick overburden <br />than the eomonInenl.al impact/Site impact already could affect I atop the oil-shale beds. This <br />on the mined land itself. more than twice that of the1would preclUde open-pit or sur- <br />A year ago BL.\I WithdreWj' S,OOO-acre tract.'! themseh'es. I face mming but make the shale <br />6.560 acres of land west of tTact ~~ application to le.a~ thf' beneath the surfac:e mineable <br />C-a and northwest of oil-shale. additional land, most of It linked'lhrn""" .'.,--1_..... <br />, <br />